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Article: Fed: Independents book phone hook-up for Sunday
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- November 8, 2001
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AAP General News (Australia)
11-08-2001
Fed: Independents book phone hook-up for Sunday
By Jordan Baker
TOWNSVILLE, Qld, Nov 8 AAP - Key independents have planned a phone hook-up in the event
of a hung federal parliament, National Party defector Bob Katter said today.
Mr Katter said independents could wrestle several seats off the coalition in Saturday's
election, which was likely to be very close.
"There is a very real chance of the independents having the balance of power in that
sort of context," the member for the North Queensland seat of Kennedy told AAP.
"We would have power beyond belief.
"We're in touch all the time, and we have already - and I didn't take the initiative,
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